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Package store a sparkling new presence in town

SHARON — It was 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 8, and there was a steady crowd of customers at the new Sharon Package Store. Owner Jack Murtagh and Mary Ann Hale deftly juggled questions from inquisitive reporters, shoppers looking for cigarettes and newspapers, an early-morning liquor purchase or two and the problems caused by phone lines that hadn’t quite begun to behave themselves.

It was their second day at their new location, on Gay Street (known by most folks as Main Street or Route 41), across the street from the post office in a space occupied in recent years by Prime Finds,...

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Sharon

Package store a sparkling new presence in town

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:46am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — It was 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 8, and there was a steady crowd of customers at the new Sharon Package Store. Owner Jack Murtagh and Mary Ann Hale deftly juggled questions from inquisitive reporters, shoppers looking for cigarettes and newspapers, an early-morning liquor purchase or two and the problems caused by phone lines that hadn’t quite begun to behave themselves.

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TriArts turned down for town grant

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:44am
By
Sean Klay

SHARON — Taxpayers at the annual town meeting on Friday, May 10, voted to approve the proposed 2013-14 budget, but rejected a move to grant $10,000 to TriArts Sharon Playhouse.
The meeting was called to order at 8 p.m. Tim Parry was selected to moderate.
All registered voters or those individuals who are on the 2012 grand list of property owners with $1,000 or more of assessed value were eligible to vote.

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Honoring Sandy Hook victims

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:44am

The Sharon Center School Spring Instrumental concert was held on Tuesday, May 7, and featured the Jazz Band (grades six to eight), Junior Band (grade five), Senior Band (grades six to eight) and Senior Strings. Among the pieces performed by the students was a piece that music instructor David Poirier, wrote and dedicated to the teachers and children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. One of the victims, a girl named Anna, was the daughter of musicians whom Poirier knows.

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Without warning, second oak tree fails, falls

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:27am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — The remaining oak in the Twin Oaks field died early Saturday morning, May 11.
Zelina Blagden, who lives nearby, said she heard a crash at midnight but didn’t realize what it was. In the morning, around 7 a.m., she heard another crash, went out to investigate — and saw that the tree had split, twice.
The weather was relatively mild. There had been a light rain but no heavy winds or lightning.

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Dance troupe amazes at Sharon Center

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 9:55am
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Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — Adam Battelstein, a Kent resident and former dancer with the famed Pilobolus dance company, entertained and amazed Sharon Center School students on Tuesday, April 30, at an assembly sponsored by the school’s PTO.
The show was called “Locomotion” and featured his new troupe, Adam Battelstein & Friends. They demonstrated principles of movement, balance, stability and gravity, using their bodies, a variety of simple props and even a Segway Human Transporter.

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Sharon Housing Trust to build new affordable home

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 9:53am
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Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — The Sharon Housing Trust (SHT) is halfway to matching a $50,000 grant that will help pay for a new affordable house on Low Road. Additional donations are being sought to bring the fundraising total up from $25,000 to $50,000.
Applicants are also being sought for the house; building won’t begin until there is a confirmed owner, so that they can work in partnership with the Housing Trust on the design of the residence.

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Town meeting vote on budgets is May 10

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 9:52am
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Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — Following the public hearing on Friday, April 26, on the proposed municipal and education budgets, the Board of Finance voted to recommend the two spending plans to a town meeting at Town Hall on Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m.
Education spending for Sharon Center School is proposed at $3,973,348, an increase of $142,605 or 3.72 percent. The majority of the increase will cover the cost of planned building repairs (including the gym floor).
Sharon’s portion of the Region One School District budget for the coming fiscal year will be $2,177,357, a decrease of $285,678 or 11.6 percent.

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Swimming, walking, reading … with the TV off

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 9:51am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — The Sharon Center School PTO took part in the national TV Turn-off Week, and sponsored a number of activities to keep children and parents entertained.
On Monday, there was an evening swim at the pool at The Hotchkiss School. The next evening, school librarian Judy Gafney read aloud to younger students in the library while older students (and their parents) played board games in the cafeteria.
The highlight of Wednesday evening was a walk around the town Green — in particularly lovely weather.
Thursday was bingo night in the cafeteria.

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Fire in shed at Trinity Glen

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 9:48am
By
Karen Bartomioli
karenb@lakevillejournal.com

SHARON — A fire in a shed on the Trinity Glen property was quickly extinguished April 30.
Volunteer firefighters were called to the scene from Sharon, Cornwall and Lakeville at around 7 p.m. Those first on the scene found smoke pouring out of windows on the west side of the shed and later concluded it was likely the result of spontaneous combustion among stored items.
The only evidence of fire on the exterior was smoke-blackened window frames. The shed is one of many residential and utility buildings on the site of the substance abuse rehabilitation center on West Cornwall Road.

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Now at Twin Oaks field: three oaks

Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:43am
By
Sean Klay

SHARON — A clear sky and a light breeze last Thursday, April 25, created the perfect conditions for the planting of two new white oak trees to replace the fallen 250-year-old oak that had long graced the Twin Oaks field.
The stately oak came down in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy blew through the region but, according to Sharon Land Trust President Larry Power, the tree had already been compromised by the snowstorm in October 2011.

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